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Roy Orbison

Roy Orbison has been played over 50 times on NTS, first on 6 March 2014. Roy Orbison's music has been featured on 53 episodes.

Roy Kelton Orbison (April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988), nicknamed "The Big O", was an influential American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll, whose recording career spanned more than four decades. By the mid-1960s Orbison was internationally recognized for his ballads of lost love, rhythmically advanced melodies, three-octave vocal range, characteristic dark sunglasses, and sometimes distinctive usage of falsetto, typified in songs such as "Only the Lonely, "Oh, Pretty Woman", and "Crying". In 1989, he was inducted posthumously…

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In Dreams
Roy Orbison
Monument1963
In Dreams
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Crying
Roy Orbison
Monument1962
Crying
Roy OrbisonMonument1962
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Blue Bayou
Roy Orbison
Monument1963
Blue Bayou
Roy OrbisonMonument1963
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It's Over
Roy Orbison
London American Recordings, London Records1964
It's Over
Roy OrbisonLondon American Recordings, London Records1964
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Dream Baby
Roy Orbison
Monument0
Dream Baby
Roy OrbisonMonument0
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Dream
Roy Orbison
Monument1963
Dream
Roy OrbisonMonument1963
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Only The Lonely
Roy Orbison
Companion0
Only The Lonely
Roy OrbisonCompanion0
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Domino
Roy Orbison
Stereo Spectrum Records1962
Domino
Roy OrbisonStereo Spectrum Records1962
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In Dreams
Roy Orbison
Bear Family Records2001
In Dreams
Roy OrbisonBear Family Records2001
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Ride Away
Roy Orbison
London Records0
Ride Away
Roy OrbisonLondon Records0
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